Method for delivering non-anonymous user metadata using an soap operation in TV anytime metadata service

• US 8,051,457 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2010
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Lee, Jong Seul, Lee, Seok Pil, Lim, Tae Beom, Yoon, Kyoung Ro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirl, Joseph P
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, AN V
• Application Number:
  US12/757,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20100218229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 571 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/135
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method or an operation for providing a personalized TV-Anytime metadata service. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of transmitting non-anonymous user metadata to a TV-Anytime service agent using a SOAP operation, comprising the steps of a) defining a SOAP operation which transmits user metadata and is capable of identifying transmission of non-anonymous user metadata, b) the service agent identifying a user, c) a client loading user metadata about the identified user on an element of the SOAP operation defined at step a) and transmitting the element with the user metadata to the service agent, and d) the service agent identifying the element of the SOAP operation transmitted at step c) and extracting the user metadata included in the element of the SOAP operation therefrom.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting user metadata about a non-anonymous user of a TV-Anytime service from a client of the TV-Anytime service to a service agent of the TV-Anytime service, the method comprising:

a) providing a simple object access protocol (SOAP) upload operation, a request element of which includes a user information element of an extended user description type, and a response element of which includes version information about a metadata capability description and reception results;

b) at the client, inputting the user metadata of an authenticated non-anonymous user to the user information element of the request element and transmitting the user metadata, in response to a command from the authenticated non-anonymous user, the request element including a request of the non-anonymous user to change user information about the user stored at the service agent;

c) at the service agent, receiving the request element;

d) at the service agent, inputting the version information about the metadata capability description and reception results to the response element and transmitting the version information and the reception results to the client, in response to the request element; and

e) at the service agent, changing the user information about the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user metadata of the non-anonymous user corresponds to user description metadata and comprises at least one of user preference, usage history, and personal bookmarks.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the SOAP operation is titled in a different name compared to another SOAP operation which element includes user metadata about an anonymous user so that the service agent discriminates the SOAP operation from the other SOAP operation by the different name.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the reception results transmitted in operation d) indicate whether the transmitting the user metadata performed at operation b) is successful or not, without showing a change of the TV-Anytime service according to the changing the user information about the user.

2. A method of transmitting user metadata of a non-anonymous user of a TV-Anytime service, the method comprising:

a) providing a simple object access protocol (SOAP) upload operation, a request element of which includes a user information element of an extended user description type, and a response element of which includes version information about a metadata capability description and reception results;

b) inputting the user metadata of an authenticated non-anonymous user to the user information element of the request element and transmitting the user metadata, in response to a command from the authenticated non-anonymous user, the request element including a request of the non-anonymous user to change user information about the user stored at a service agent of the TV-Anytime service;

c) receiving the request element; and

d) inputting the version information about the metadata capability description and reception results to the response element and transmitting the version information and the reception results to the client, in response to the request element; and

e) at the service agent, changing the user information about the user.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the reception results transmitted in operation d) indicate whether the transmitting the user metadata performed at operation b) is successful or not, without showing a change of the TV-Anytime service according to the changing the user information about the user.